@article{1439951,
      recid = {1439951},
      author = {Ford, Derek,},
      title = {Marxism, pedagogy, and the general intellect : beyond the  knowledge economy /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {"Marxism, Pedagogy, and the General Intellect provides  crucial suggestions for creating a 'new' public. The  creatively and innovatively surprising argument  generatively builds on Marxist theory and practice, and  will be indispensable for adequately approaching the  contemporary situation and redressing the problems  generated by the contemporary capitalistic knowledge  economy." Ryom Munsong, Associate Professor of Faculty of  Foreign Languages, Korea University (in Tokyo) and Vice  Chief, Research Team on Contemporary Korean Studies at the  Center for Korean Studies. "One would have to be truly  stupid to enjoy this book, as it has no value whatsoever!  Derek R. Ford has written a book with a surprisingly  subversive thesis that demands an equally surprising  endorsement. If the left is to challenge the knowledge  economy, it must recognize the collective power of  stupidity as a refusal to instrumentalize, measure, and  thus commodify education in the name of capitalist value  production. Drawing on a wide variety of sources ranging  from Karl Marx to Edouard Glissant and others, Ford  produces a unique genealogy of stupefying pedagogies that  enable social movements to claim the opacity and  incomprehensibility of stupidity as resistant to the  ignorance and arrogance of educators on the right and the  left." Tyson E. Lewis, Professor of Art Education,  University of North Texas, USA. This book is the first to  articulate and challenge the consensus on the right and  left that knowledge is the key to any problem,  demonstrating how the lefts embrace of knowledge  productivity keeps it trapped within capitals circuits. As  the knowledge economy has forced questions of education to  the forefront, the book engages pedagogy as an underlying  yet neglected motor of capitalism and its forms of  oppression. Most importantly, it assembles new pedagogical  resources for responding to the range of injustices that  permeate our world. Building on yet critiquing the Marxist  notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes  stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an  anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive. Derek  R. Ford is Assistant Professor of Education Studies at  DePauw University, USA. Hes published five monographs and  six edited volumes. Among other projects, Ford is also the  editor of LiberationSchool.org},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439951},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83834-8},
}